Any school looking for a new coach could do a lot worse than Stephen Gentry, Outstanding IMO
2021-22 College Hoops Coaching Carousel
sacraig
- The desert
Maybe Mizzou can hire Crean.
With their futures in doubt, Georgia, Mizzou stumble into regular-season finale
Tom Crean's days at UGA could be numbered as the SEC's last-place Bulldogs have gone 6-24 heading into Saturday's game at Mizzou.www.stltoday.com
COLUMBIA, Mo. — As Missouri’s basketball season nears its finish line and uncertainty swirls around the program’s future, there’s one consolation for sullen Tiger fans: It’s not Georgia bad.
Mizzou (10-20, 4-13 Southeastern Conference) concludes the regular season Saturday at Mizzou Arena with a visit from last-place Georgia (6-24, 1-16), a program that’s absorbed more roster turnover and injuries but like MU could be headed for a coaching change soon after the season’s final buzzer sounds.
After Tom Crean’s first winning season in Athens last year, the transfer portal gutted his roster, funneling his best players to some of the best programs in the SEC and beyond. Georgia added 10 newcomers, including seven transfers, but the Bulldogs have lost several key players in recent months — they don’t have a natural power forward after season-ending injuries to P.J. Horne and Jailyn Ingram — and Crean’s reinforcements haven’t patched enough holes.
As for coach Cuonzo Martin, Mizzou officials have avoided issuing any public vote of confidence that he’ll return for a sixth season in 2022-23. There are influential boosters in separate camps whether he should return next year, multiple sources close to the situation have told the Post-Dispatch. Martin has two years left on his contract and a $6 million buyout should the school fire him after this season.
A year ago this time, since-departed athletics director Jim Sterk was talking about a contract extension for Martin. Now, uncertainty simmers.
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2 coaches with warm seats............maybe red hot seats.......................I like it , I really really do............................
MoCoMdIllini
- Montgomery County, Maryland
I'll bet they've been thinking about him. A lot.
Don't you remember, the other assistant coaches at Illinois didn't like him? And he was said to be weird. Asinine comments. I remember all the stupid things being said about him and thought that he was must do something right if Underwood hired him at 3 places and Few hired him twice. I think that the word I heard to describe him was "cerebral". And maybe he isn't the guy you go out and drink a beer with, but I think having a smart head coach is more important than having a guy that everyone likes.
I knew this would happen. Underwood is a KSU alum and if I were one too, he would be at the top of my list. However, I went to Illinois, so I want him to stay here for a long time. I really don't see any upside for him to leave for KSU. Illinois has more money anyway, but KSU in all due respect, would be a step down. If Underwood does ever leave, it will be for a UNC, Kentucky, or another blue blood.
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sacraig
- The desert
This guy has an interesting grapevine.I knew this would happen. Underwood is a KSU alum and if I were one too, he would be at the top of my list. However, I went to Illinois, so I want him to stay here for a long time. I really don't see any upside for him to leave for KSU. Illinois has more money anyway, but KSU in all due respect, would be a step down. If Underwood does ever leave, it will be for a UNC, Kentucky, or another blue blood.
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I'll eat my hat if he leave this job for K-State. I don't care if he's an alumnus. We have more money, a better recruiting footprint, a bigger fanbase, a better conference, and more national exposure.
But I'm sure he bleeds purple.
ChazzReinhold
Mom! The Meatloaf!
You always have to take into account what the wife would want. Now that BU is sleeping with the B1G trophy, I really hope that means he wants to stay.
sacraig
- The desert
The perfect post doesn't exi...
I think Rick loves being at Iona as its non pressured. It would take the right job to get him to leave. Maybe he does not need the limelight anymore and he certainly would not want a place that ran Turgeon away.
I am really shocked that some of their supports think there is a chance Brad would leave Illinois now to go to K-State...
sacraig
- The desert
It's like our own fan base's delusions but on overdrive due to having less history to back those delusions up.
Paraphrasing “…if an organization or school hires someone you haven’t heard of…(and you say, who?)…it seldom works out…”I knew this would happen. Underwood is a KSU alum and if I were one too, he would be at the top of my list. However, I went to Illinois, so I want him to stay here for a long time. I really don't see any upside for him to leave for KSU. Illinois has more money anyway, but KSU in all due respect, would be a step down. If Underwood does ever leave, it will be for a UNC, Kentucky, or another blue blood.
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When I read that I thought of that first conference coach K had at Duke where he’s spelling out and pronouncing his name: K-r-z-y-z-e-w-s-k-i…to the press.
The very definition of: who?
Seems like it worked out okay…
Bo Ryan was pretty much an unknown outside the state of Wisconsin…seems like he did alright. There’s plenty of other examples…
I think it’s just more like people tend to remember the BIG splash hires and have a short memory for everything else.
If I remember correctly, didn’t BU say UI was his “dream job”? I guess he has a lot of dreams…
Right, they wanna believe it…therefore they
believe it…and then continue to attempt to valid what they already believe.
We’re all guilty of that from time to time.
A byproduct of long periods of desperation
and hope that sometimes grasps at far-fetched/extreme notions.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I also think that you tend to say that when you're networking and want to be considered for better jobs as you move up.
BU seems incredibly content here and has built a great program. I think he'll want to stick it out
KSU would be a step down from his last job tooI knew this would happen. Underwood is a KSU alum and if I were one too, he would be at the top of my list. However, I went to Illinois, so I want him to stay here for a long time. I really don't see any upside for him to leave for KSU. Illinois has more money anyway, but KSU in all due respect, would be a step down. If Underwood does ever leave, it will be for a UNC, Kentucky, or another blue blood.
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Brad ain't going to K state.
Good basketball mind. Terrible at building relationships.
We not only have the better conference, we have one that isn't currently on life support like the Big 12.
I knew this would happen. Underwood is a KSU alum and if I were one too, he would be at the top of my list. However, I went to Illinois, so I want him to stay here for a long time. I really don't see any upside for him to leave for KSU. Illinois has more money anyway, but KSU in all due respect, would be a step down. If Underwood does ever leave, it will be for a UNC, Kentucky, or another blue blood.
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I’m pretty sure he said that while coaching at Stephen F Austin.
If we ever lose Brad, it's not going to be K-State that has the firepower to poach him.
I think the point was that he said we were his dream job well before he took this job. So presumably, if we treat him well it appears likely we won't lose him.
If we ever lose Brad, it's not going to be K-State that has the firepower to poach him.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
KSU is a huge step down.
ESPN updated their Top 100 NCAA basketball programs of all-time in 2017. We're the highest-rated team not to have a National Championship:
#1 - Kentucky
#2 - North Carolina
#3 - Duke
#4 - UCLA
#5 - Kansas
#6 - Indiana
#7 - Louisville
#8 - Arizona
#9 - Syracuse
#10 - Cincinnati
#11 - Fighting Illini of Illinois (down from #6 as recently as 2006)
#43 - Kansas State
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
Completely ignorant, but how does Cincinnati have a better ranking than us?